README File for:

"Interstate Conciliation in the Shadow of Deep Historical Grievances"

Journal of Conflict Resolution

Authors
- Kai Quek, University of Hong Kong 
- Jiaqian Ni, University of California, Berkeley 

January 30, 2026


List of replication files:

(1) Datasets 
- "Conciliate_China.RData": dataset of the China survey
- "Conciliate_Japan.RData": dataset of the Japan survey
- "Conciliate_USA.RData": dataset of the USA survey 
- "china_open.csv": dataset containing the Chinese open-ended responses with English translations
- "jap_open.csv": dataset containing the Japanese open-ended responses with English translations

(2) Codebooks 
- "Codebook_China.pdf": codebook of the China survey (in Chinese)
- "Codebook_Japan.pdf": codebook of the Japan survey (in Japanese)
- "Codebook_USA.pdf": codebook of the USA survey (in English) 

(3) Data Analysis Codes
- "analysis_all.R": R script to produce the following: 
	- Hypothesis testing statistics (see the "Statistics" sections and the "Sender-receiver gap" section in R script) 
	- Results figures (Figures 3-7) reported in the main text (see the "FIGURES" section in R script) 
	- Figures in Appendix B (see the "APPENDIX B" section in R script) 
	- Subset analysis reported in Appendix C (see the "SUBSET ANALYSIS" section in R script) 
	- Supplementary analysis of the open-ended responses in Appendix D (see the "Structural Topic Models" section in R script)
	- Results of the US experiment in Appendix F (see the "US Experiment" section in R script) 
- "demographics.R": R script to produce the demographics tables in Appendix E


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Note 1: The replication was done with RStudio version 2025.05.1+513, and with the following R version:

platform       aarch64-apple-darwin20      
arch           aarch64                     
os             darwin20                    
system         aarch64, darwin20           
status                                     
major          4                           
minor          5.1                         
year           2025                        
month          06                          
day            13                          
svn rev        88306                       
language       R                           
version.string R version 4.5.1 (2025-06-13)
nickname       Great Square Root  

Note 2: The replication was conducted on macOS (Tahoe 26.1)
